April 24, 2013

It’s been so hard this past week, hasn’t it? Watching and reading and hearing what happened in Boston last week when three people were murdered while watching the Boston Marathon, and hundreds other horribly injured.

And not knowing what to do or ho w to help and wanting desperately to do something.

Runners at Boston Strong Asheville tonight

Tonight we tried to do something. Mary Koppenheffer, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombings last week, wanted to show that the cowardly terrorists weren’t going to stop her from running, and she asked a couple hundred friends to run with her tonight throught the streets of Asheville, and they did.

Boston Strong Asheville came out in force tonight. Mary estimates maybe 200 of us came out in our blue and yellow T-shirts. It was wonderful, wasn’t it, to run on a hot, sweaty, hilly night with all these other runners, and their kids and their dogs, and some, like Mary, and Morgan Scoville, who also ran last week in Boston, who were still sore and hurting, physically and emotionally, from the marathon.

We put money in a jar for the One Fund Boston fund to help the victims of the bombings, and we hugged and cheered and ran, and we felt like we did something.

We did do something. We stand with you and we run with you, Boston. We won’t stop running. Running, like one of the organizers, Marty Harwood-Edes said tonight, is a non-violent sport. There’s no contact unless you want to hug somebody. So keep running. Keep hugging. Keep standing up to the bullies in the world.

We love you, Boston. And I love Asheville runners.

Check out Bobby Bradley’s video, including Mary and Morgan talking about the event, at www.CITIZEN-TIMES.com.

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